A Week's Worth of Behavioral Therapy

School starts next week and I have discovered that the easiest way for his teachers and school therapists to catch up on what Bobby has been working on in ABA (applied behavioral analysis) over the summer is to videotape his therapy sessions so that they can see first hand.  This idea started when his speech therapist was trying to figure out a time when she could come and see one of his sessions, but her schedule just wouldn't allow this, so videotaping was the solution.  When I took in the tape, everyone that works with him wanted to watch it and they found it extremely helpful.

Bobby has been working on quite a few new things in therapy so I took my camera everyday this week to make sure that I got everything new on tape.  I would love to share the videos here, especially the ones of Bobby reading, but they are just too long.  I am, however, going to share the candid pictures that I took of Bobby on his breaks....just because they make me laugh.

Monday...

Such an odd angle

Trying to figure out how to get out the window and over to the McDonald's!

He thinks that he is a cat...batting the ball between his paws.

Tuesday....

Another odd angle

All of this hard work makes a boy thirsty

Wednesday....

He did something that he has never done before when we walked into the waiting room....he laid down on the couch instead of going over to the toy area to play.

He finally had to go into the therapy room and get to work.  He did get a break....

Not even sure what the heck is going on here!!

Finally Thursday....

Why yes that is a bowl of french fries from home.  It was lunchtime.

Don't you bring bowls of french fries everywhere you go too?

Yes, he does actually do some work while he's there...

Something is happening for the next six days!!!  Well, more specifically, something is NOT happening for the next six days......Bobby has ZERO appointments scheduled!!!  No therapy or anything else but fun planned for the next six days and then....SCHOOL STARTS!!  To top if off, when Bob gets home from work today he will be on vacation for a week!!  Honestly we haven't had six days of no appointments since Christmas break when Bobby had the flu and we had to cancel his appointments. Funny thing is....Bobby has been asking for "school bus" and "Ms. Kim" for days now.  Hopefully the rain will go away and we can plan some super fun activities.